Kareem I. King Jr. and Melissa Jones are with We Got Us, Boston, MA, and Harvard College, Cambridge, MA. Eilien Milien is with We Got Us, Boston, and Emmanuel College, Boston. Terrence Mensah is with Housing = Health, Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Lady Lawrence E. J. Carty is with Housing = Health, Boston.
Am J Public Health. 2024 Sep;114(9):870-873. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2024.307713. Epub 2024 Jun 20.
In November 2021, two grassroots organizations in Boston, Massachusetts-a housing and health justice organization and a student-led nonprofit-established an initiative to provide persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) near the Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard ("Mass&Cass") intersection in Boston with access to free COVID-19 education and other wrap-around services. They partnered with hospitals, public health organizations, and advocacy groups to make this happen. This community-driven initiative serves as a model for how to enact a sustainable pipeline for PEH to receive health resources and information, with the voices of those directly impacted at the center. (. 2024;114(9):870-873. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307713).
2021 年 11 月,马萨诸塞州波士顿的两个基层组织——一个住房和健康正义组织和一个学生领导的非营利组织——发起了一项倡议,为在波士顿马萨诸塞大道和梅尼娅·卡丝大道(“Mass&Cass”)交叉口附近无家可归的人提供免费的 COVID-19 教育和其他配套服务。他们与医院、公共卫生组织和宣传团体合作来实现这一目标。这个由社区驱动的倡议为如何为无家可归者建立一个可持续的渠道,以获得健康资源和信息提供了一个模式,让那些直接受影响的人的声音处于中心位置。(2024 年;114(9):870-873. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307713)。